Best Higher Education Tech Companies in Brazil
The 42 best Higher Education Tech companies in Brazil in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Passei Direto.
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Ranked: Best Higher Education Tech companies in Brazil
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | App-install YoY | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Passei Direto Collaborative platform for university students | $9M | 74 mo ago | Series B | Andre Simoes Co-Founder | 2012 | +5% | — |
| 2 | Samba Tech Online content management and advertising platform | $6M | 122 mo ago | Series A | Gustavo Caetano Founder & CEO | 2004 | — | — |
| 3 | Start Careers Online platform connecting university students to companies for employment opportunities | $1M | 31 mo ago | Seed | Gabriel Albuquerque Co-Founder | 2022 | — | — |
| 4 | Escola em Movimento Online communication platform for educational institutions | $618K | 102 mo ago | Seed | Leonardo de A. Silva Co-founder & CMO | 2014 | — | — |
| 5 | Me Passa aí Online distance learning platform with video lessons | $77K | 119 mo ago | Seed | Luiz Gustavo Borges Founder & CEO | 2014 | — | — |
| 6 | UOL EdTech Online learning solution for businesses and educational institutions | — | 65 mo ago | Seed | — | 2013 | — | — |
| 7 | Responde Ai Study material for home work and test preparation for students | — | 151 mo ago | Seed | Paulo Monteiro Co-Founder | 2013 | — | — |
| 8 | Damasio Online and offline courses for legal education | — | 218 mo ago | Acquired | Thiago Sayao CEO | 1970 | — | — |
Top 8 Higher Education Tech companies in Brazil
#1
Seed · Sao Jose Dos Campos, State of Sao Paulo · founded 2022$1.4Mraised▾
Online platform connecting university students to companies for employment opportunities. It offers a platform where students can learn how to create opportunities and work in their desired companies.
- Jan 2024Seed$1.4M
#2
Series B · Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro · founded 2012 · 179 employees$8.5Mraised▾
Collaborative platform for university students. The platform enables students to access study materials shared by others. Students can also ask questions, follow the latest happenings, find jobs or internships, and others. Monetizes through in-app purchases. Its mobile app is available for Android and iOS devices.
- 2020Series B—
- Mar 2016Series B$6.2M
- 2013Seed$2M
- 2012Seed$268.4K
#3
Series A · Belo Horizonte, State of Minas Gerais · founded 2004 · 131 employees$6Mraised▾
Samba Tech provides enterprise streaming solutions to big corporations, universities, and distance learning players. Its products include Samba Hub which is a tool acting as a centralized distribution channel for videos launched in partnership with the Beved an online course platform. Samba Videos is the flagship video platform which is a video content management suite offering media management, monetization, analytics, players. Clientele includes Grupo Abril, MTV, Viacom, Bloomberg, and ESPN.
- Jun 2016Series A$3M
- 2008Series A$3M
#4
Seed · Belo Horizonte, State of Minas Gerais · founded 2014 · 25 employees$618.2Kraised▾
Online communication platform for educational institutions. The features include announcements and circulars, calendars and schedules, individual student-specific notifications, homework, content and other information delivery, user activity tracking and analytics, read-receipts, chat between individuals and a group of users, API Integration, etc.
- Feb 2018Seed$618.2K
#5
Seed · Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro · founded 2014 · 7 employees$77.1Kraised▾
Me Passa Ai is a distance learning platform which helps higher education students in diverse courses ranging from structural analysis, financial education to entrepreneurship etc. Video lessons are created by "nerds" ( a student who stand out and can connect with the user base). Contents are structured in a number of short videos which helps in effective learning. Provides solved exercises, notes and abstracts for reference and study.
- Sep 2016Seed$77.1K
- Nov 2014Grant (prize money)$25K
#6
Seed · Sao Paulo, State of Sao Paulo · founded 2013 · 803 employees—raised▾
Online learning solution for businesses and educational institutions. For educational institutions, it has online program management for the digital transformation of educational institutions, OPM partner institutions for offering students a digital learning experience, and athena IE LMS platform for managing educational institution's online training programs & integrating desktop & mobile experiences. For businesses, it offers ciatech & webula for offering technological solutions for corporate education, integrating platforms, teams & expertise, athena LMS for managing company's training actions, wisdom courses to develop skills with content, and special solutions for customized training programs along with onboarding, leadership & culture, sales & products.
- Mar 2021Seed—
#7
Seed · Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro · founded 2013 · 64 employees—raised▾
Responde Ai is an online platform that offers study material and resources to students to help with their homework. Offers summaries, old tests, and step-by-step exercises from books and test materials. It provides content in engineering, physics, algebra, programming, calculus, and more.
- Jan 2014Seed—
#8
Acquired · Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo · founded 1970 · 268 employees—raised▾
Provider of educational services. The company offers bar exam test preparation, undergraduate and graduate law programs, professional education, higher education and exam review services. It also offers onsite undergraduate and graduate law programs and online and distance learning graduate law programs through its network of learning centers.
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